Wii sales may finally slow down this year


After two years flying high in the sales charts -- even going so far as to offset declines for other consoles in 2008 -- EDGE reports that the Wii sales train might finally be slowing down. Screen Digest analyst Ed Barton notes that supply and demand for the Wii in the US has balanced since the beginning of 2009. Meanwhile, Wii sales in Japan have slowed dramatically, seeing it fall from selling in excess of 100,000 units per week during the holidays to selling just over 16,000 units last week.According to Barton, there are few "major" game releases for the Wii in the coming months apart from Madworld, which he says "is way outside the kind of software which has typically succeeded on Wii." Barton states that this along with sales data and the possibility of a UK price increase are "a number of things which will not help Nintendo succeed with the Wii in the way that it has for two years."Of course, there's one more Wii sales factor that has to be considered: Nintendo is probably running out of people to sell them to.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments